SPEC CPU2006

CPU2006 is SPEC's next-generation, industry-standardized, CPU-intensive benchmark suite, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem and compiler. SPEC designed CPU2006 to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware using workloads developed from real user applications. These benchmarks are provided as source code and require the user to be comfortable using compiler commands as well as other commands via a command interpreter using a console or command prompt window in order to generate executable binaries. The current version of the benchmark suite is V1.1, released in June 2008.

Results

Submitted Results
Text, HTML, CSV, PDF, and Configuration file outputs for the SPEC CPU2006 metrics; includes all of the results submitted to SPEC from the SPEC member companies and other licensees of the benchmark.

Search across all CPU2006 results in SPEC's online result database.

Information

SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Press Releases
Press release material, documents, and announcements:

SPEC Ships CPU2006 V1.1 (06/03/2008)
– What's new in V1.1?
SPEC Ships CPU2006 V1.0 (08/24/2006)
SPEC CPU2006 Press Background (presented as Q&A)

SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Documentation
SPEC CPU2006 technical and support documents, Run and Reporting Rules, etc. All documentation available on the DVD is also available here.

SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Descriptions
A survey of the benchmarks comprising each SPEC CPU2006 component suite:

CINT2006 - The Integer Benchmarks.
CFP2006 - The Floating Point Benchmarks.
A PDF summary of all 29 benchmarks, as published in the ACM SIGARCH newsletter, Computer Architecture News, Volume 34, No. 4, September 2006.

Related Publications
An archive of selected publications related to CPU2006 is available.

Support

Installation, build, and runtime issues raised by users of SPEC CPU2006.

Flags

Flag Descriptions - explanations from the testers for what all those cryptic flags in the results' notes section really mean.

Ordering

You can purchase this or any other SPEC benchmark by using the online order form. Licensees of previous versions of the CPU benchmark suite are elegible for discounted upgrade pricing.